Grant Morrison  - Quotes

 I run blindly through the madhouse ... And I cannot even pray ... For I have no God. 

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Jane Austen  - Quotes

 She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors. 

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Susan Hill  - Quotes

 They told of dripping stone walls in uninhabited castles and of ivy-clad monastery ruins by moonlight, of locked inner rooms and secret dungeons, dank charnel houses and overgrown graveyards, of footsteps creaking upon staircases and fingers tapping at casements, of howlings and shriekings, groanings and scuttlings and the clanking of chains, of hooded monks and headless horseman, swirling mists and sudden winds, insubstantial specters and sheeted creatures, vampires and bloodhounds, bats and rats and spiders, of men found at dawn and women turned white-haired and raving lunatic, and of vanished corpses and curses upon heirs. 

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Keith Kekic  - Quotes

 These streets belong to us because we decided not to punch the time clock. We decided to see what and f*ck is going on out here when all those other people are going to sleep. So we walk from dusk until dawn and we rule. 

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Geoff Ryman  - Quotes

 He was surprised by the face; swollen by age, with hatchet marks around the eyes. The teeth grinned out at Jonathan, part of the skull peeking out. Hi, there, the skull seemed to say from underneath its temporary flesh. I won't go away. 'Anyway, see you later tonight,' Bill was saying, still alive. 

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Michael Cox  - Quotes

 After killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn 

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Michael Richardson  - Quotes

 The form of the Gothic novel also implicitly contested the claims of Realism to reflect the world directly by showing how artificial its structure was. 

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